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[quote=Anonymous]Wow!  I bet he keeps you on your toes.  I had trouble keeping up with my mathy daughter’s interests, and your son is considerably more advanced than my daughter was.  We just enriched her at home and once she was in the magnet program, they were able to keep her engaged.  I can recommend some resources for enrichment at home, but the programs   I’ve only heard about and have no direct experience with.

I’d go ahead and contact the math club at American to check with them directly.  Assuming your son’s behavior isn’t disruptive, if he’s able to handle the math, the age might be flexible.  Even if they won’t accept him, they might have some recommendations for a group that would be a better fit for him.

I think the American math club is what’s known as a circle.  Here’s the wikipedia page about math circles, it might help you find other circles if the one from AU doesn’t work out.  I’m not sure, but I think there might be virtual math circles online, maybe that could be an option for your son.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_circle

John’s Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY) has programs in different subjects for gifted kids.  I suspect your son’s math level may be above the programming they generally offer to his age group, but since their focus is on gifted children, they might be used to accommodating those type of variations in ability.
https://cty.jhu.edu/

I’ve heard a lot of great things on DCUM about Beast Academy and Art of Problem Solving.  I think it’s supposed to teach kids how to approach complex problems and may be a good preparation for high school math tests.  
https://artofproblemsolving.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoqyBMa7Jq4dZygwixePVcnljo2RXY5vh2BGeiKbh70qxfxcB9of

I think the Davidson Institute offers some resources and programming for gifted kids, but I know very little about it.
https://www.davidsongifted.org/

(I’m having trouble posting, so I’m trying to split it up and will try to post the other resources separately.)
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